Powerful speakers, a responsive screen and Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) are probably the only features that you will love about the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 should you choose to purchase this tablet. Other than these features that are on offer, Samsung is offering 50GB of free Dropbox storage for the first year. As far as I am…
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The jury in a Federal Court in the United States has held that Google had infringed on only nine lines of code of Oracle while building its Android Operating system. The jury, in its limited judgement, decided that Google had not extensively violated Oracle’s copyrights of Java programming language. This is a win for Google who will not be forced to…
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Even a little kid who uses the internet is familiar with one name i.e. YouTube. This website has occupied number one place in the list of online video sharing sites since last three years. The users of the website are increasing each day because of the influence that it has brought in the world of the internet. Just like Google,…
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Federal Trade Commission is investigating the proposed Facebook’s Instagram deal. Facebook has struck deal with Instagram to buy it at a price of $1 billion. Financial Times has reported that such scrutinies generally take between six months to one year for their completion. If the scrutiny extends to such duration, then the expected closure of the deal in the second…
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Yahoo continues to sail in troubled waters. In recent turn of events, Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo has stepped down putting an end to the controversy about his computer science degree. Scott Thompson is the third CEO of Yahoo to leave in as many years. This is hardly something desired for a company already struggling to keep itself relevant in…
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An error in his resume brought about the downfall of CEO Scott Thompson, who was sacked along with four other directors at Yahoo! A mutual settlement with investor Daniel Loeb will see him and two of his allies take their places on the Yahoo! Board of directors. Ross Levinstone, who is the global media leader for Yahoo took over as…
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Microsoft has been struggling with its search engine named Bing. Microsoft’s division that powers Bing has been a loss maker so far and ended up with an operating loss of $479 million during the quarter ending March compared with $776 million loss in the same period last year. Even with aggressive marketing and continuous rollout of innovative features, Bing has not been…
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Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud Applications are an innovative contribution designed purposely for cloud computing. Cloud computing is the internet supported development and applications. Integrating a film, it robotically deals with the dilemma of load allotment by requesting and distributing resources among data centers founded on volume. Briefly, the entire infrastructure of data centers can sustain applications, accentuate security, and elevated…
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Something about Ending Process Ending the process means that the application is forcefully closed by either the administrator of a computer or by the user who had initialized the program. Whenever an application is initialized in Windows-based computer, a process that the application uses initializes and runs in the background. If, because of any reason, any application fails to respond…
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Something about Volume Shadow Copy Volume Shadow Copy allows administrators to restore the previous versions of files if their later or latest versions are misplaced or lost because of any reason. Volume Shadow Copy is supposed to be enabled on per volume bases, which means that it must be enabled individually for every volume that the hard disk drive had….
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For the past couple of years, it was the firm belief of industry insiders as well as speculative outsiders that Google had something up its sleeve that could end the dominance of Apple and Microsoft. Back in 2011, Motorola CEO Sunil Jha took the center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show when he launched the Motorola Atrix smartphone along with a…
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Something about Restoring the System Restoring a computer system is a vast topic that may include restoring the operating system from the backup, restoring from automatically created a system restore points, restoring from manually created system restore points, restoring the entire hard disk drive (including system drive) using any third-party application, etc. In order to restore the operating system from…
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Something about System Restore Points System restore points are the snapshots of system settings that are, by default, automatically created after a specific time interval. With the help of system restore points administrators can roll back the system settings to the previous states at which the system worked flawlessly. System restore points are also automatically created whenever administrators install a…
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Something about Running Application As Administrator Running an application as administrator means that the application must use administrative privileges while executing. Sometimes, it becomes important to run an application as administrator in order to make some administrative modifications and perform elevated tasks in the operating system. In earlier versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems, such as Windows XP, a service…
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Assembling a PC, be it the first or the hundredth time is always tricky. Even tech enthusiastic people who have been assembling PC’s for a while sometimes get it wrong. Now by ‘wrong’ I don’t mean the computer will not work or malfunction but I simply mean that you might just end up paying more for the machine that you…
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Something about Windows Firewall Windows Firewall is a built-in tool that restricts or permits incoming and outgoing traffic as per the rules specified by the administrators. Windows Firewall can be considered like a gatekeeper of a secured building that has a list of people who are permitted or restricted to enter the premises. When Windows 7 operating system is installed,…
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Something about Extending Partition Size In earlier versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows XP, etc. if administrators wanted to extend partition size, they were supposed to delete the target volume and then re-create it specifying the increased partition size. In such operating systems, administrators were allowed to extend the partitions only if they have converted their…
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Something about Stereo Mix Stereo mix is a feature in Microsoft Windows operating systems that allow users to integrate internal system audio with the external voices so that they can be heard simultaneously. When users log onto any chat messenger that also allows them to enjoy voice chats, stereo mix feature, when enabled, allows them to play music in the…
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Winamp is another form of media player which has its own unique features that can be more beneficial compared to all the other existing media players. One of these is the multiplicity of its format. Winamp can be customized with great flexibility. Over a hundred bitmap files as skins of Winamp program are available online. They represent certain moods that…
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Recovering Data from Bad Sectors A bad sector in a hard disk drive is the unusable space on which data cannot be written; and if the data already exists, it cannot be read. Bad sectors in hard disk drive normally occur because of improper computer shutdown, which forces the platters of the hard disk drive stop abruptly, hence making them…
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Something About Remote Desktop Connection Performance Microsoft Windows 7 allows administrators to establish Remote Desktop connections to the remote computers using Remote Desktop Connection client application that is integrated in the operating system itself. In order to use Remote Desktop Connection client to establish Remote Desktop connection to the remote computer, the user must have administrative credentials of the remote…
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The Samsung Galaxy Prevail ($179.99) is a mid-range smartphone which functions exceptionally well for its price and is possibly one of the best Android devices for just about anybody who wants to own a decent smartphone with superb functionality. It was launched by the makers in partnership with Boost, who have come up with a plan to provide unlimited talk,…
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Video LAN Client (VLC) Media Player is a packet-based player of media files. Software components required to encode and decode audios and videos are fixed in a packet to complete the system of VLC Media Player. This packet is specialized in supporting various formats of audios and videos under the licensed library of the software components which are incorporated in…
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Clean Hard Disk Drive to Free Disk Space and Increase Performance When Microsoft Windows 7 is installed on a computer, everything goes perfectly well as the registry entries are new, files are stored in contiguous clusters, no memory dump files are present, etc. As the time passes by, and the users frequently install and uninstall applications and save or delete…
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The wait has ended and the Google Drive has been officially launched, putting an end to speculations. However, the speculators were right when they guessed that Google Drive will be offering 5GB of free storage for everyone. Google Drive users can upgrade to 25GB per month with the paid option of $2.49 per month. The account can be upgraded to 100GB…
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